Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ValarieF]

I've never seen a rooster with a crown/comb like that! He is a stunner!

Thanks!

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

I hope it's not offensive to say that I think the boy on that photo has the same look as you do now, the eyes of someone with dreams.

I hope these turn out to resolve as best as possible .

MONDAY MISTERY : Who stole my old marked eggs ?
I need some educated opinions. My three pullets lay in an old barn above our house and I leave an old egg in the nest marked so I can recognize it, otherwise they switch nest. They have two nests, each with an old egg. This morning, both eggs had vanished ! No trace of broken shell anywhere in the barn, no visible animal tracks. We leave a hole open for our cats in the night so anything that can get through it could have stolen the eggs. But do any of you have a clue on what animal would take them away and not eat them on spot ?
We don't have racoons or bobcats but other wise pretty much of anything that can be found in European rural land!
Anyway I wish it luck if it tried eating the three months old eggs.

Gaston's face for a mug and tax. Doesn't he looks kind ?
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Awe, I feel bad for the animal that stole your eggs... could it have been a snake? I had a yellow rat snake in my coop and he would take an egg, eat it, wait until it went down in esophagus or whatever snakes have, and then he ate another. Repeat. The only reason I know that he did that is because the first few times we got him out (before we relocated him) he had two or three lumps in his body from eggs Your rooster is a stunner! That orange-red color is to die for!!

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Thanks!

No problem!!

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

I get to skip school on Wednesday because I have a Poultry Evalulation competition for my FFA!! No school!

 

[ValarieF]

I get to skip school on Wednesday because I have a Poultry Evalulation competition for my FFA!! No school!

Good Luck!

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Snake talk tax- Splotch body shot!!

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Thanks! Sadly I need to wait TWO more whole days (after today) for the composition... I know I'm crazy!!

Good Luck!

 

[RoyalChick]

I hope it's not offensive to say that I think the boy on that photo has the same look as you do now, the eyes of someone with dreams.

Awww - such a lovely post, and you are so right!

MONDAY MISTERY : Who stole my old marked eggs ?
I need some educated opinions. My three pullets lay in an old barn above our house and I leave an old egg in the nest marked so I can recognize it, otherwise they switch nest. They have two nests, each with an old egg. This morning, both eggs had vanished ! No trace of broken shell anywhere in the barn, no visible animal tracks. We leave a hole open for our cats in the night so anything that can get through it could have stolen the eggs. But do any of you have a clue on what animal would take them away and not eat them on spot ?
We don't have racoons or bobcats but other wise pretty much of anything that can be found in European rural land!
Anyway I wish it luck if it tried eating the three months old eggs.

Interesting. I would be afraid to keep an old egg like that in case it exploded! I have fake (ceramic) eggs to try and suggest safe places to lay and I think I posted previously that Babs took a real disliking to them. She first moved them to another nest box and eventually she removed them entirely.
I eventually found them buried deep in the coop floor litter.
I have no idea, but I find it possible that your hens could smell they were bad eggs and booted them out somewhere. If so, they did you a big favor!

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

I have fake (ceramic) eggs to try and suggest safe places to lay and I think I posted previously that Babs took a real disliking to them.

I used to have a few ceramic eggs, but I think that I accidentally smashed them... I never really used them anyway. I only used them to try to get my female guineas to lay in the coop! Well, that never worked, and they ended up laying near a pond with a very hungry alligator in it... luckily I didn't lose anyone...

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Well, I'd better sign off, because my school exit is coming up. Have a nice day! I will talk to you guys later tonight!